Re: The best book to learn ruby for beginners

Hi there -

I strongly recommend "Agile Development with Rails" by Dave Thomas and David Heinenmeier Hansson. I find that it documents some of the methods of Rails better than the Rails API documentation itself! I also have Dave Thomas' "Programming Ruby" - aka "the pickaxe". They're both very well written and packed with good, accurate information that's relatively simple to understand. I reference them both frequently as a newb myself and highly recommend them.